The German government ended its campaign of passive resistance to French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr. The move enraged the far right, which then began to organize towards more radical action.
Locally, there was some interesting news.
Mostly I posted this as the thought of a bond election with only one no vote is simply stunning. That wouldn't occur now.
And the Governor of Oklahoma was calling out the Guard to resist a racist impeachment attempt.
The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) was established by President Harding, via an executive order. It was at the time called the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was published in Geneva. It stated:
1 The child must be given the means requisite for its normal development, both materially and spiritually.
2. The child that is hungry must be fed, the child that is sick must be nursed, the child that is backward must be helped, the delinquent child must be reclaimed, and the orphan and the waif must be sheltered and succoured.
3. The child must be the first to receive relief in times of distress.
4. The child must be put in a position to earn a livelihood, and must be protected against every form of exploitation.
5. The child must be brought up in the consciousness that its talents must be devoted to the service of its fellow men.
It's worth noting that Putin's Russian government is kidnapping Ukrainian children, brainwashing them, and sending them out to Russian families to be "adopted" and raised as Russians.
The French eliminated the Freistaat Flaschenhals, the "Free State of the Bottleneck, which had been that bizarre self-governing strip of land between the US and French occupation zones in post World War One Germany.
No weird thing lasts forever.
On the same day, U.S. Major General Henry Allen, left the German fortress of Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, de facto ending the U.S. occupation in Germany.
Allen, who opposed French actions in the Ruhr, went on to lead a successful campaign to raise funds for German children and pregnant women. In spite of his then advanced age, 77, he was considered as the running mate for Al Smith's 1928 running mate, and received votes for that office. A West Point graduate from 1882, he was in the cavalry branch and lived an adventuresome life in the Army, being posted in Alaska, and then later serving in the Spanish American War and the Punitive Expedition, prior to serving in World War One, in which he commanded the 90th Infantry Division.
Yucatán sent a press release to American news agencies that cheap divorces were now available in that Mexican state.
France sent aircraft over the Ruhr in preparation for entering it.
Czechoslovak Finance Minister Alois Rašín was shot by an anarchist.
A white mob destroyed Rosewood, Florida. We reported on the start of these events a few days ago.
In Sofia, Bulgaria, an explosion of surplus artillery shells sold to a junk dealer by the Interallied Disarmament Commission killed twelve.
French, Belgian and British troops occupied Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort due to German reparation payment failures. The U.S., meanwhile, announced that it would continue to occupy the Rhineland.
It's well know that the French "occupied the Ruhr" in 1923, but it rarely seems to be understood that this started as an overall Allied action in 1921. The initiation of the occupation was limited, but none the less the event didn't start in 1923, but 1921.
